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jole-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript against the labor literature — staking the contribution against the closest papers under Chicago author-date citation norms, not writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not run analysis.

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# Literature Positioning (jole-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The related-work section reads as a survey rather than a contribution stake
- It is unclear which papers you build on and which you improve on
- Citations are not in Chicago author-date style or are ordered wrong in-text
- A referee could say "this has been done" and you have no crisp rebuttal

## Positioning for a labor audience

JOLE referees are labor economists who know the field's frontier. Positioning is not a literature dump; it is a **precise stake**: which two or three papers are closest, and exactly what you add (better identification, new or linked data, a distinguished mechanism, a new population or institution). Because the journal is **general-interest within labor**, also locate the paper for labor economists in adjacent subfields — a wage-structure result should be legible to someone who studies migration or family economics.

Citation mechanics are JOLE-specific and load-bearing here:
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